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Crosley, Mark Lauden.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
2012-09-13T18:43:00Z
2012-09-13T18:43:00Z
1982
1982
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72710
09032714
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1982
Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-105).
Herein lies the design of an imaginary building in a very real neighborhood. The building is, among other things, a theater, café, childcare facility and guest house. The neighborhood is a 100 year old urban residential neighborhood, a comfortably-scaled place that is well-liked by its inhabitants. The rationale for imagining a building into this context is the following: In a residential neighborhood, public and commercial buildings must be clearly seen as such, but ought not be so discontinuous as to disrupt the neighborhood. How, then, can the form of a public building reinforce the total form of the neighborhood, while establishing a clear difference in use? I have developed a method of analyzing an existing place in order to make conscious decisions about reinforcing and transforming the existing context, and applied it to the design of this single building.
by Mark Lauden Crosley.
M.Arch.
M. Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
105 p. (3 folded)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Architecture.
Theaters
Design.
Theater architecture.
Theater architecture. fast
Theaters. fast
Design. fast
Re-creating the context : the design of a community theater
Thesis
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